Wilhelm Reich
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Reich's work on character contributed to the development of Anna Freud's ''The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence'' (1936), and his idea of muscular armour—the expression of the personality in the way the body moves—shaped innovations such as body psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, bioenergetic analysis and primal therapy. His writing influenced generations of intellectuals; he coined the phrase "the sexual revolution" and according to one historian acted as its midwife. During the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, students scrawled his name on walls and threw copies of ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'' at police.
After graduating in medicine from the public University of Vienna in 1922, Reich became deputy director of Freud's outpatient clinic, the Vienna Ambulatorium. During the 1930s, he was part of a general trend among younger analysts and Frankfurt sociologists that tried to reconcile psychoanalysis with Marxism. He established the first sexual advisory clinics in Vienna, along with Marie Frischauf. He said he wanted to "attack the neurosis by its prevention rather than treatment".
He moved to New York in 1939, after having accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the New School of Social Research. During his five years in Oslo, he had coined the term "orgone energy"—from "orgasm" and "organism"—for the notion of life energy. In 1940 he started building orgone accumulators, modified Faraday cages that he claimed were beneficial for cancer patients. He claimed that his laboratory cancer mice had had remarkable positive effects from being kept in a Faraday cage, so he built human-size versions, where one could sit inside. This led to newspaper stories about "sex boxes" that cured cancer.
Following two critical articles about him in ''The New Republic'' and ''Harper's'' in 1947, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration obtained an injunction against the interstate shipment of orgone accumulators and associated literature, calling them "fraud of the first magnitude". Charged with contempt in 1956 for having violated the injunction, Reich was sentenced to two years imprisonment, and that summer over six tons of his publications were burned by order of the court., ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 2015; Sharaf (1994), pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ddlMl4jJgh0C&pg=PA460 460–461] . James Strick (historian of science), 2015: "In 1956 and again in 1960, officers of the U.S. government supervised the public burning of the books and scientific instruments of Austrian-born scientist Wilhelm Reich. This was one of the most heinous acts of censorship in U.S. history, as New York publisher Roger Straus was heard to remark many times over decades afterward, explaining why his firm, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, steadfastly brought all of Reich's published works back into print beginning in 1960."}} He died in prison of heart failure just over a year later. Provided by Wikipedia
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21by Reich, Peter B, Ellsworth, David S, Walters, Michael B, Vose, James M, Gresham, Charles, Volin, John C, Bowman, William DGet access
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22A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertilityby Ordoñez, Jenny C., Van Bodegom, Peter M., Witte, Jan Philip M, Wright, Ian J., Reich, Peter B., Aerts, RienGet access
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23A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertilityby Ordoñez, Jenny C., Van Bodegom, Peter M., Witte, Jan‐Philip M., Wright, Ian J., Reich, Peter B., Aerts, RienGet access
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24by Berini, John L., Brockman, Stephen A., Hegeman, Adrian D., Reich, Peter B. (R16861), Muthukrishnan, Ranjan, Montgomery, Rebecca A., Forester, James D.Get access
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25A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertilityby Ordonez, Jenny C., Bodegom, Peter M. van, Witte, Jan-Philip M., Wright, Ian J. (R20529), Reich, Peter B. (R16861), Aerts, RienGet access
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27by Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel, Maestre, Fernando T, Reich, Peter B, Trivedi, Pankaj, Osanai, Yui, Liu, Yu‐Rong, Hamonts, Kelly, Jeffries, Thomas C, Singh, Brajesh KGet access
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29by Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel, Maestre, Fernando T., Reich, Peter B., Trivedi, Pankaj, Osanai, Yui, Liu, Yu‐Rong, Hamonts, Kelly, Jeffries, Thomas C., Singh, Brajesh K.Get access
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30by Dering, Monika, Kosiński, Piotr, Wyka, Tomasz P., Pers–Kamczyc, Emilia, Boratyński, Adam, Boratyńska, Krystyna, Reich, Peter B., Romo, Àngel, Zadworny, Marcin, Żytkowiak, Roma, Oleksyn, JacekGet access
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31by Dering, Monika, Kosiński, Piotr, Wyka, Tomasz P., Pers–Kamczyc, Emilia, Boratyński, Adam, Boratyńska, Krystyna, Reich, Peter B., Romo, Angel, Zadworny, Marcin, Żytkowiak, Roma, Oleksyn, JacekGet access
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32by Dering, Monika, Kosinski, Piotr, Wyka, Tomasz P., Pers-Kamczyc, Emilia, Boratynski, Adam, Boratynska, Krystyna, Reich, Peter B. (R16861), Romo, Angel, Zadworny, Marcin, Zytkowiak, Roma, Oleksyn, JacekGet access
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33by Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Maestre, Fernando T, Reich, Peter B, Trivedi, Pankaj, Osanai, Yui, School of Environmental and Rural Science, orcid:0000-0001-6390-5382, Liu, Yu-Rong, Hamonts, Kelly, Jeffries, Thomas C, Singh, Brajesh KGet access
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34by Liu, Huiying, Mi, Zhaorong, Lin, Li, Wang, Yonghui, Zhang, Zhenhua, Zhang, Fawei, Wang, Hao, Liu, Lingli, Zhu, Biao, Cao, Guangmin, Zhao, Xinquan, Sanders, Nathan J., Classen, Aimee T., Reich, Peter B., He, Jin-ShengGet access
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35by Liu, Huiying, Mi, Zhaorong, Lin, Li, Wang, Yonghui, Zhang, Zhenhua, Zhang, Fawei, Wang, Hao, Liu, Lingli, Zhu, Biao, Cao, Guangmin, Zhao, Xinquan, Sanders, Nathan J., Classen, Aimee T., Reich, Peter B., He, Jin-ShengGet access
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36by Brzostek, Edward R., Blair, John M., Dukes, Jeffrey S., Frey, Serita D., Hobbie, Sarah E., Melillo, Jerry M., Mitchell, Robert J., Pendall, Elise, Reich, Peter B., Shaver, Gaius R., Stefanski, Artur, Tjoelker, Mark G., Finzi, Adrien C.Get access
Published in Global Change Biology (2012)
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37by He, Pengcheng, Gleason, Sean M., Wright, Ian J., Weng, Ensheng, Liu, Hui, Zhu, Shidan, Lu, Mingzhen, Luo, Qi, Li, Ronghua, Wu, Guilin, Yan, Enrong, Song, Yanjun, Mi, Xiangcheng, Reich, Peter B., Wang, Yingping, Ellsworth, David S., Ye, QingGet access
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38by He, Pengcheng, Gleason, Sean M., Wright, Ian J., Weng, Ensheng, Liu, Hui, Zhu, Shidan, Lu, Mingzhen, Luo, Qi, Li, Ronghua, Wu, Guilin, Yan, Enrong, Song, Yanjun, Mi, Xiangcheng, Reich, Peter B., Wang, Yingping, Ellsworth, David S., Ye, QingGet access
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39by O’Sullivan, Odhran, Heskel, Mary, Reich, Peter B., Tjoelker, Mark G., Weerasinghe, Lasantha, Penillard, Aurore, Zhu, Lingling, Egerton, John (Jack), Bloomfield, Keith, Creek, Danielle, Abdul Bahar, Nur, Griffin, Kevin L., Hurry, Vaughan, Meir, Patrick, Turnbull, Matthew H., Atkin, OwenGet access
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40by He, Pengcheng, Gleason, Sean M., Wright, Ian J., Weng, Ensheng, Liu, Hui, Zhu, Shidan, Lu, Mingzhen, Luo, Qi, Li, Ronghua, Wu, Guilin, Yan, Enrong, Song, Yanjun, Mi, Xiangcheng, Hao, Guangyou, Reich, Peter B., Wang, Yingping, Ellsworth, David S., Ye, QingGet access
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